Dave Ress

Writer

Dave Ress covers state and regional issues for the Daily Press. He started off in journalism as a stringer for the Christian Science Monitor while a student in Montreal a very long time ago and was a correspondent for Reuters in Montreal, London and Nairobi before getting sense enough to settle in Virginia. Dave is the author of The Burundi Ethnic Massacres: 1988 and Gov. Edward Coles and the Vote to Forbid Slavery in Illinois and is far too interested in history, economics and politics for his own good.

Recent Articles

Chesapeake Bay landings of menhaden are coming in at a pace well below a controversial cap imposed by an interstate fisheries commission, Virginia Marine Resources Commissioner Steven Bowman said. As of the end of June, landings for the so-called reduction fishery came in at 24,000 metric tons,...

Sen. Tim Kaine has a large lead over GOP challenger Corey Stewart with three months to go before the November election for U.S. Senate, a new poll from Virginia Commonwealth University’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. Center for Public Policy shows. Nearly half of likely...

A special prosecutor will look into reports that false names were entered on ballot petitions gathered for Shaun Brown to run as an independent in the 2nd Congressional District. The names were gathered by paid staff and others associated with the re-election campaign for Rep. Scott Taylor, R-Virginia...

A prominent, but deceased, booster of Old Dominion University and a former Virginia Beach resident who registered to vote in Nevada in 2014 were among the names Rep. Scott Taylor’s paid campaign staff gathered in a bid to put independent candidate Shaun Brown on the ballot. Among the names his...

A series of surcharges that Dominion Energy Virginia says it needs — one of which it said ought to be easier to get after this year's regulatory reform — could offset some savings on customers’ monthly bills that had been promised in that reform. Whether they end up wiping out all the promised...

With a 31-page regulatory filing and an underwater survey that starts next week, Dominion Energy has reached a pivot point in its hopes to become an offshore wind energy powerhouse, says chairman and chief executive officer Thomas Farrell. Offshore wind is a project Dominion has been working on...

This weekend brings Virginia’s annual sales tax holiday — the break the state government gives, supposedly to help families with back-to-school shopping. But Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis policy analyst Chris Wodicka thinks the break isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It costs the state...

This weekend brings Virginia’s annual sales tax holiday – that break the state government gives, supposedly to help families with back to school shopping. But Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis policy analyst Chris Wodicka thinks the break isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It costs the state...